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  • If everyone banded together and refused to ever take a plea deal, it would completely overwhelm our justice system and make it impossible not to enact reform.

    The government literally doesn’t have the resources to take everyone they imprison to trial, and they need the private prisons filled. If they can’t fill the cots, private equity moves somewhere profitable.

    Once theyre gone, they stop paying lobbyists, once there’s no prison lobbyists, no politician is really going to give a fuck.

    But it’s literally a prisoner dilemma.









  • Organically…

    There was some dude who wanted to “promote sports” and he did that by making over 100 communities that all had individual mod bots who posted constantly

    All that did was get everyone to block any sports posts because it blended in with spam.

    Make a couple posts for big stuff, but if you don’t get engagement, the answer isn’t to increase quantity, it’s to increase quality.

    Like, post a thread for an important match, but expect most comments to be made after the game. And your sport has 20 games a week, posting 40 threads one for each team just dilutes it.

    Maybe do a weekly recap thread or just post highlight videos to draw people in.

    Bot posting is just going to end up as spam if no one engages, and everytime someone blocks it early for spam, that’s a user that may have stuck around and contributed for years if it had a better start


  • Techbros didn’t even invent that shit.

    That and “disruption” was just going into an existing market, flooding it quickly with cheap prices, and the second you squeeze out competition jack up rates.

    It’s the same thing Walmart did.

    With AI they offer it cheaper than humans because they’re burning investor cash and not making money. Once a company fires staff, their next AI contract switches to per token price instead of monthly unlimited.

    And then suddenly realizing the “rockstars” that kept their job because they were AI experts, were just sitting at their laptop 8 hours straight constantly prompting over and over again. After that they’re paying more than they were before AI with a shittier product and completely unpredictable workflow completely reliant on AI usage.

    Hopefully we’re reaching the point even c-suite execs figure it out. Once they do it’ll pop.



  • While politicians and pundits try to make this race about a Twitch streamer, we’re going to be talking about gas, groceries, good schools, and healthcare,” El-Sayed said in a statement on Monday. “Because that’s what Michiganders keep asking about. It’s why I’m fighting to get money out of politics, money in your pocket, and Medicare for All.”

    That’s not “obsessing over Hasan Piker”…

    Some jackass twitch streamer keeps claiming to be speaking for anyone that’s progressive, despite those progressives never acknowledging him. Until it gets to the point where Faux News and neoliberals start accusing those progressives of supporting Hasan, because they’re only ignoring him and not getting roped into his bullshit.

    That pulls actual politicians into having to say “no, that fucking twitch streamer I’ve never talked to does not represent me or my campaign anymore than any other idiot with a webcam”.

    If anyone is obsessed, it’s Hasan. But he’s not obsessed with anything besides his bank account and views.

    How in the actual fuck can anyone (most of all Hasan) not understand that best case scenario he’s a useful idiot for anti-progressive propaganda?


  • Dems 100% do not obsess over any twitch streamer…

    Even if he switched from designer clothes to a suit when streaming in his mansion.

    Literally the only articles I see in reference to him, is headlines insisting he’s important and the party hates him…

    If any of that was true, if the party was “obsessing” about him…

    They’d kind of at least have to be talking about him.

    But I never see those, just constant insistences from this twitch streamer claiming he’s super important

    Edit:

    Seriously, read the article…

    El Sayed and some unnamed neoliberal got into it, and Hasan talked about it on Twitch.

    At no point did anyone say anything to Hasan, or acknowledge anything he said…

    Yet the headline is about how politicians obsess over Hasan, despite no one even acknowledging him.






  • Arch Linux has no EULA because it is not sold software like Ubuntu Pro.

    Right, your link is about use of online services…

    The following Terms of Service contain the rules for the use of the internet Platform Arch Linux, operated by the Arch Linux Team, accessible under the domain archlinux.org and various related subdomains (the “Platform”) and the respective Services, namely provision of the Arch Linux package platform, the forums, the wiki, the bug reporting tool and a reporting tool for security issues, Arch User Repository (AUR), Mailing Lists, IRC Channels, collaboration pads and the Bulletin Board System (the “Services”) of Arch Linux (“Arch Linux”, “we”) by you as a user (the “User”, “you”).

    There’s no EULA, but after reading up on it, isn’t it even considered software?

    Like, it seems to really just be a command line, that straps together a bunch of individual packages, which add up to a very very lightweight OS, and then even more can be added on.

    Seems really cool, and I like the idea. But my understanding is the packages themselves have EULA’s on their own and function pretty autonomously.

    I think thats going to the closest anyone gets tho, thanks for linking it.